Back on May 25, 2005,
(2 years ago) Chuck Pillon and I filed a
Citizen RICO racketeering complaint (documented
evidence) with the FBI, Seattle Office, that we alleged against King
County government. After two written inquiries
to the FBI in those two years, we have received not a single response from
them. Attached is our letter to the FBI of November 11, 2005 and our
letter of May 14, 2007, inquiring about the status of our complaint.
No response. When we
presented the complaint to the FBI, they asked us to keep it non-public,
but since they have apparently taken no action, we believe it is time to take it
public. Two years with no action seems more than long enough, if not
somewhat suspect.
Absent of any
information to the contrary and from the FBI's silence, we can only conclude
that there is no federal investigation of our allegations. In
fact, in two years, the FBI has made no communication with us
whatsoever, written, verbal or otherwise, that there is an
on-going federal investigation. Thus, we have no knowledge that one
exists, nor were we advised by the special agents with whom we spoke personally,
that the FBI would undertake such an investigation and that public release of
our complaint would be interfering with any such federal
investigation. Obviously then, it cannot be construed that this
public release of our RICO racketeering complaint is in any way,
interference with a federal investigation that doesn't exist. We
suspect that our complaint, in all likelihood, ended up in the round file within
an hour of its delivery.
In any event, after the U. S. Attorney, John
McKay, refused to investigate specific allegations of criminal acts in the 2004
King County voter scandal that vaulted an illegal governor into office by 129
votes, we were not overly surprised that the FBI would not investigate
our RICO racketeering complaint. We can only conclude from
their in-action, in either case, that all branches of government protect
all other branches of government. Consequently,
government corruption is left to the citizens to oversee and Chuck and I have
decided to make our RICO racketeering complaint public and let the chips fall
where they may.
It is of interest to note that there is
currently a case in the U. S. Supreme Court, defended by the Pacific Legal
Foundation, where an American citizen (large rural
Wyoming landowner) has alleged RICO racketeering activities by
agents of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the prevailing wisdom is
that he will win. If he does win, the decision would be precedent
setting. He has already prevailed in piercing the "qualified
immunity" defense of the BLM agents. That in itself, is
precedent setting, as all public officials hide behind "qualified immunity" when
confronted by citizen actions that accuse such officials with malfeasance,
misfeasance, or violation of their oath of office.
Besides the two letters to the FBI, Seattle
Office, inquiring about the status of our complaint, we have attached
the full text of our complaint as a WORD document. The following is a
brief summary of the complaint.
RICO RACKETEERING COMPLAINT
SUMMARY
A. King
County Department of Development and Environmental Services. (DDES)
1.
A consistent pattern of over charging and duplication of fees for permits
of all kinds.
2.
Arbitrary and capricious actions on permit applications and code
enforcement actions.
3.
Piling on of charges for spurious code enforcement allegations and
penalties way beyond reason in addition to a pattern of intimidation and brow
beating of landowners, either in some permit application, or by a discovery of
some code violation through an anonymous complaints.
4.
Purposely hiding pertinent files in code enforcement actions or during
appeals.
5.
Denying citizens due process as required by the 5th Amendment
to the U. S. Constitution.
B.
King County Water and Land Resources Department (WLRD)
Imposing fees on property owners and then not
apportioning those fees for the reasons they were imposed in the first
place. Rather than those fees
(over $200,000,000 since the fee was imposed) being used for their lawful
purposes, said fees have been diverted to build a huge staff, initiate
exhaustive studies and buy capital equipment.
C. King
County Department of Natural Resources and Parks (DNRP)
The printing and distribution of material clearly
designed to promote and propagandize specific land use ordinances as an advocate
piece, without proper disclosures and with clear distortions and
misrepresentations of fact.
D.
Fraudulent extortion of federal funds to build salmon restoration devices
in streams and seasonal creeks that have no possibility of ever bearing
salmon.
E.
Consistent abuse of Freedom of Information and Public Disclosure Act
requests. King County has already
been sued for these violations and had to pay out over $100,000 in
penalties. One particular case is
still open and the County could be obligated to even greater penalties, all of
which come out of the taxpayer's pocket and caused by government legislators and
bureaucrats to cover up negligence, mismanagement and outright fraud, waste and
abuse.
F.
Governmental misconduct in the acquisition and subsequent
planning-related activities pursuant to construction of an Interim East Lake
Sammamish Trail. King County
acquired control over an abandoned railroad right-of-way under provisions of a
federal rails-to-trails law, and has been bent on building the cheapest possible
trail through wetlands and the middle of people’s yards, ignoring its own
policies and codes in the process.
Numerous, documentable, unscrupulous tactics have been employed in this
effort to reap the political windfall that this trail
represents.
These are very serious allegations and at the
end of our complaint we said:
"All the more reason this racketeering must be investigated and
exposed for what it is, and an end put to it. Therefore we undersigned Citizens of
King County Washington challenge you to meet your responsibility to the public
and act promptly."
From all appearances, not only has the
FBI's investigation not been promptly, it hasn't been at all. The
Federal Government (FBI), essentially, thumbed their noses in our faces.
Corruption in government is the enemy of all the people. If the government
will not police itself, when called upon by the people, then it is up to the
people to hold government's feet to the fire by any legal means, including
public exposure. If government won't do it, then It is high time for the
people and the news media to start asking some very pointed questions of King
County government, based on what we have provided here. It is our intent
to provide the motivation to start that investigative process in
earnest. But our deep cynicism makes us wonder if anyone really
cares?
Respectfully,
Ron Ewart
Fall City, WA
425
222-9482